Claudius

:The name of two Roman emperors. This article deals with Claudius I. See Claudius II.

Claudius' scholarly works

Exclusion from public life suited his inclination towards the academic. Whilst still a boy Claudius started work on a Roman history which opened with the murder of Julius Caesar, then skipped a few years and started again at the close of the Civil Wars in forty-three volumes. He also wrote twenty volumes on Etruscan history and eight volumes on Carthaginian history. Sadly none of these have survived.

Related Topics:
Julius Caesar - Etruscan - Carthaginian

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He also proposed a reform of the Roman alphabet by adding three new letters.

Related Topics:
Alphabet - Three new letters

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